SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Academic Journal, Contingency Table, Thesis Statement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

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Your goal is to create a research project from beginning to end. Guidelines regarding how your paper should be set up (these are approximations) Introduction/literature review (including thesis): 5 pages double spaced. Methods (description of variables): 1 page double spaced. Bibliography: last page (at least six references from academic journals) Total 9-10 pages, double spaced, including tables and bibliography (spss output is extra) Perform descriptive statistics on the variables in your study. Perform one analysis (either crosstab, correlation, or comparing means (anova)) Treat likert variables as quantitative as long as they have four categories and are conceptually continuous. Create your own tables in the text of the document. Referencing: include at least six academic references, and use them appropriately to support your arguments. Include your spss printouts at the end of the assignment. Your paper should not be longer than 12 pages (excluding spss printouts). You must have an abstract: a one paragraph summary of your entire research paper.